Limited Editions Club (LEC)

Limited Editions Club (LEC)
The Limited Editions Club (LEC) is a renowned publisher of finely crafted, limited-edition books, specializing in beautifully illustrated and designed editions of literary classics and significant works.

Founded in 1929 by George Macy in New York, the club launched amid the stock market crash but persevered through the Great Depression, World War II, and beyond. It operated as a subscription-based service, typically releasing 10–12 titles per year. Each book was produced in a limited run—most commonly 1,500 numbered copies (signed by the illustrator or other contributors in many cases)—featuring high-quality printing, original illustrations (often by prominent artists), fine bindings, and expert typography.

Under Macy’s leadership (until his death in 1956), the LEC emphasized affordability for subscribers while commissioning work from notable illustrators and artists such as Henri Matisse (e.g., Ulysses by James Joyce, 1935), Pablo Picasso (Lysistrata by Aristophanes, 1934), Salvador Dalí, Rockwell Kent, and many others. After Macy, his widow Helen managed it briefly, followed by ownership changes (including Boise Cascade in the 1970s). In 1978, Sidney Shiff took over, shifting toward smaller, higher-priced editions with even more elaborate production.

The club published around 589 titles total from 1929 until its last new releases around 2010. It remains celebrated among book collectors and fine press enthusiasts for its artistic collaborations and production quality.

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1937 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB LEC PINOCCHIO RICHARD FLOETHE Book

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Limited Editions Club Three Cornered Hat 1959, Roger Duvoisin Signed LEC #1111

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Limited Editions Club~Leo Tolstoy~Childhood Boyhood Youth~1972 LEC Signed 1500

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Frankenstein, Mary Shelley : Limited Editions Club 1934 LEC New York

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1961 LEC 'SEA WOLF' BY LONDON SIGNED FLETCHER MARTIN LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB

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Three Men In A Boat - Jerome K. Jerome Limited Editions Club (LEC) 1975 HC

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Limited Editions Club Three Cornered Hat 1959, Roger Duvoisin Signed LEC #519

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SIGNED The Living Talmud Limited Editions Club 1960 Ben-Zion LEC #1027 w/ Letter

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Innocent Voyage Richard Hughes Limited Editions Club LEC 1944 Lynd Ward 677/1500

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PEER GYNT - Henrik Ibsen - 1955 - Limited Editions Club, LEC

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Limited Editions Club LEC Prospectus Seventh Series 1935-1936 C51

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SIGNED The Pilot James Fenimore Cooper Limited Editions Club 1968 LEC w/ Letter

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LEC Arabian Nights Entertainments 4 Vol HC Burton/Szyk 1954 Set No. 798/1500

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Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson Limited Editions Club Signed Numbered LEC

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LEC Washington Square by Henry James 1971 Limited Editions Club SIGNED 593/1500

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Robert Graves Poems, Limited Editions Club in Slipcase #366/2000 Signed LEC

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Limited Editions Club LEC Prospectus Seventh Series 1935-1936

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Shakespeare Plays Limited Editions Club Lot of 6 Books 1939 1940 Illustrated Set

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An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1954) The Limited Editions Club

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Limited Editions Club (LEC) Monthly Letter #47 April (1933)

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Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley The Limited Editions Club Two-Volume Set 1947

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The Last Days of Pompeii LEC 1956 Limited Editions Club #662 Signed Slipcase Ill

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Limited Editions Club : Three Plays of Euripides

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Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson 1945 Signed Limited Editions Club LEC Leather Book

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SIGNED Tegner FRITHIOF'S SAGA Limited Editions Club (LEC) 1953 HC SLIPCOVER

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Book of the Prophet Isaiah (1979) The Limited Editions Club

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The Sonnets of Petrarch Limited Editions Club 1965 Signed #662 Mardersteig Salva

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